Test Drive Unlimited (PC)... DO NOT BUY!
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It will arrive and fix no issues, cause more bugs than it fixes, and generally mean no one will want another product from these arses again.
Such a shame. It's a product that with backup like say, WoW, would have been a community I'd have bothered with and made the game last years!
It's gathering dust now, after a couple of months it's 'used up'
Such a shame. I'd hate to work on a game like that and see it go out un-polished and un-supported.
Dave
Such a shame. It's a product that with backup like say, WoW, would have been a community I'd have bothered with and made the game last years!
It's gathering dust now, after a couple of months it's 'used up'
Such a shame. I'd hate to work on a game like that and see it go out un-polished and un-supported.
Dave
ThePassenger said:
I figured I'd just dump this here (thus bumping my own thread 
).
That TDU patch that was due to hit May? 100% for sure, May?
It's now scheduled for mid-June at the earliest.
is it literally just to fix the game...?).That TDU patch that was due to hit May? 100% for sure, May?
It's now scheduled for mid-June at the earliest.
I'm having no problems so I'm slightly apprehensive now!
LukeBird said:
ThePassenger said:
I figured I'd just dump this here (thus bumping my own thread ).
That TDU patch that was due to hit May? 100% for sure, May?
It's now scheduled for mid-June at the earliest.
is it literally just to fix the game...?).That TDU patch that was due to hit May? 100% for sure, May?
It's now scheduled for mid-June at the earliest.
I'm having no problems so I'm slightly apprehensive now!
t, your choice). If it's working for you then a sigh of relief. The patch is pure bug fixes and anti-cheat for on-line (BUT primarily bug fixes), to sweeten the deal (because some people have been unable to play this thing for two solid months) they're going to throw in two free cars... which the XB360 players got as part of their DLC bundles (a Audi R4 and a Skyline I believe).
Mr Whippy said:
It will arrive and fix no issues, cause more bugs than it fixes, and generally mean no one will want another product from these arses again.
I said that about NWN2 (another fine Atari release, rushed out the door) and I brought TDU, principally because I figured half of PH would be playing it and thus wanted to race. Personally, that's to me Atari falling down on two projects and showing no signs of learning from their mistakes.Edited by ThePassenger on Thursday 31st May 00:24
The game is choppy on our TH PC (AMDX2 4600, 7950 GPU, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD), can't even use AA at all!
Later today, I shall install it on my work PC (Intel Extreme 6700 Quad Core @ 3.2GHz, 8800 GTX, 2GB of Dominator RAM, 2x150GB Raptors in RAID0 etc - as good as it gets for gaming - and CAD work..) - if it's choppy on this PC, then there definitley is something wrong with the game.
I checked for a patch, but nothing as yet...
Later today, I shall install it on my work PC (Intel Extreme 6700 Quad Core @ 3.2GHz, 8800 GTX, 2GB of Dominator RAM, 2x150GB Raptors in RAID0 etc - as good as it gets for gaming - and CAD work..) - if it's choppy on this PC, then there definitley is something wrong with the game.
I checked for a patch, but nothing as yet...
CombeMarshal said:
Nope! only problem originally was that you could get stupid speed boosts, but they fixed that on the second update!
Apart from that it is totally trouble free!
another plus for console over PC!
Not really. The PS2 version has issues. I'd say it shows which system the game has been primarily aimed at, in this case the 360. Apart from that it is totally trouble free!
another plus for console over PC!
chris watton said:
The game is choppy on our TH PC (AMDX2 4600, 7950 GPU, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD), can't even use AA at all!
Later today, I shall install it on my work PC (Intel Extreme 6700 Quad Core @ 3.2GHz, 8800 GTX, 2GB of Dominator RAM, 2x150GB Raptors in RAID0 etc - as good as it gets for gaming - and CAD work..) - if it's choppy on this PC, then there definitley is something wrong with the game.
I checked for a patch, but nothing as yet...
Wow, choppy on that!!Later today, I shall install it on my work PC (Intel Extreme 6700 Quad Core @ 3.2GHz, 8800 GTX, 2GB of Dominator RAM, 2x150GB Raptors in RAID0 etc - as good as it gets for gaming - and CAD work..) - if it's choppy on this PC, then there definitley is something wrong with the game.
I checked for a patch, but nothing as yet...
I'm running mine 1280*1024 with 4XAA, no HDR because I don't really think it adds anything, on an Athlon64 3700+, 6800GS 256mb, 1gb RAM and off my new 300gb and its fine. Much, much quicker (and could run it 1280*1024 as opposed to 1024*768) with the new HD...
I personally love it, although I can certainly appreciate the idiocy of the "will it, won't it work?!?!" I just don't want it to install the new patch....
LukeBird said:
I'm running mine 1280*1024 with 4XAA, no HDR because I don't really think it adds anything, on an Athlon64 3700+, 6800GS 256mb, 1gb RAM and off my new 300gb and its fine. Much, much quicker (and could run it 1280*1024 as opposed to 1024*768) with the new HD...
I have read a lot to suggest that the game often runs far better on the older 6-series cards as it is automatically turning off/down some of the feature set that's causing problems, whereas with an 8-series card it's got everything whacked up to full and trouble sets in at that point.For example, it was fine on my 6600GT 128MB, although I had to turn down to 800x600 and couldn't use the dashboard view in the city.
I've just built a new computer, so it'll be interesting to see what happens when I fire up TDU on it...
Timberwolf said:
I've just built a new computer, so it'll be interesting to see what happens when I fire up TDU on it...
... and it seems to be working fine! Core 2 Duo E6420, MSI 8600GTS 256MB and 2GB RAM on this box. All running at stock speeds with the drivers that came in the box.Glass smooth, even in the city - you get the *slightest* of pauses when the game loads in a new car, but nothing to stop gameplay.
The only commonality I can think of is that I'm still running Windows 2000 SP4 again while I hold out for the various driver/peripheral issues with Vista to be completely sorted.
Did Atari just not test it on any newer operating systems? Or am I just incredibly lucky to have run it on two different computers without trouble?
Timberwolf said:
Did Atari just not test it on any newer operating systems? Or am I just incredibly lucky to have run it on two different computers without trouble?
Lucky. Core 2 Duo, 2Gb RAM, XP Pro SP2, GeForce Go 7900 GS here (Yes, the Go's a tell-tale, it's a laptop 
). And well, you've seen the pictures on the previous page.It does that in Linux as well at the exact same point (i.e. it's not hardware, drivers or OS issues).
I don't think the QA department and TDU were officially introduced.
Well, I played it for the first time proper last night, and not a hitch. I installed it on our 'lesser' PC (4600 AMD AM2, GF 7950 GPU, 2 GB ram, XP Pro, XBox 360 controller), and I got addicted, over six hours of my life wasted, but I enjoyed it so much - until I let the kids have a go, crashed everywhere, and lost all of my prize money in a fraction of the time it took me to collect it!
When it is running OK, it really is very good, I like it a lot. I play it on our 50" plasma TV at 1024x768 (or something like that!), it looks stunning even at that resolution.
I had to prize myself away from it when I realised the wife was asleep next to me, and the time was 2am!
Only had one small prob at one point, the sound decided not to work, so I had to exit the game and restart it - but I have Rome, and sometimes the game CTD, or freezes every now and then, so no great shakes.
So, it seems to play fine on an average PC, albeit a fairly modern PC.
One thing I can't figure out, the cars that have names over them, are they online players, or just CPU players?
When it is running OK, it really is very good, I like it a lot. I play it on our 50" plasma TV at 1024x768 (or something like that!), it looks stunning even at that resolution.
I had to prize myself away from it when I realised the wife was asleep next to me, and the time was 2am!
Only had one small prob at one point, the sound decided not to work, so I had to exit the game and restart it - but I have Rome, and sometimes the game CTD, or freezes every now and then, so no great shakes.
So, it seems to play fine on an average PC, albeit a fairly modern PC.
One thing I can't figure out, the cars that have names over them, are they online players, or just CPU players?
chris watton said:
Well, I played it for the first time proper last night, and not a hitch. I installed it on our 'lesser' PC (4600 AMD AM2, GF 7950 GPU, 2 GB ram, XP Pro, XBox 360 controller), and I got addicted, over six hours of my life wasted, but I enjoyed it so much - until I let the kids have a go, crashed everywhere, and lost all of my prize money in a fraction of the time it took me to collect it!
When it is running OK, it really is very good, I like it a lot. I play it on our 50" plasma TV at 1024x768 (or something like that!), it looks stunning even at that resolution.
I had to prize myself away from it when I realised the wife was asleep next to me, and the time was 2am!
Only had one small prob at one point, the sound decided not to work, so I had to exit the game and restart it - but I have Rome, and sometimes the game CTD, or freezes every now and then, so no great shakes.
So, it seems to play fine on an average PC, albeit a fairly modern PC.
One thing I can't figure out, the cars that have names over them, are they online players, or just CPU players?
The sound issue can be corrected by simply switching the car view all the way through the available viewws back to the one you use. Happened to me once, never happened since.When it is running OK, it really is very good, I like it a lot. I play it on our 50" plasma TV at 1024x768 (or something like that!), it looks stunning even at that resolution.
I had to prize myself away from it when I realised the wife was asleep next to me, and the time was 2am!
Only had one small prob at one point, the sound decided not to work, so I had to exit the game and restart it - but I have Rome, and sometimes the game CTD, or freezes every now and then, so no great shakes.
So, it seems to play fine on an average PC, albeit a fairly modern PC.
One thing I can't figure out, the cars that have names over them, are they online players, or just CPU players?
The cars with names over are either online players (if your profile is online) or offline AI (if your profile is offline). Either way you can challenge them to race, and if they are human you can often get them to cruise around with you.
Civpilot said:
chris watton said:
Well, I played it for the first time proper last night, and not a hitch. I installed it on our 'lesser' PC (4600 AMD AM2, GF 7950 GPU, 2 GB ram, XP Pro, XBox 360 controller), and I got addicted, over six hours of my life wasted, but I enjoyed it so much - until I let the kids have a go, crashed everywhere, and lost all of my prize money in a fraction of the time it took me to collect it!
When it is running OK, it really is very good, I like it a lot. I play it on our 50" plasma TV at 1024x768 (or something like that!), it looks stunning even at that resolution.
I had to prize myself away from it when I realised the wife was asleep next to me, and the time was 2am!
Only had one small prob at one point, the sound decided not to work, so I had to exit the game and restart it - but I have Rome, and sometimes the game CTD, or freezes every now and then, so no great shakes.
So, it seems to play fine on an average PC, albeit a fairly modern PC.
One thing I can't figure out, the cars that have names over them, are they online players, or just CPU players?
The sound issue can be corrected by simply switching the car view all the way through the available viewws back to the one you use. Happened to me once, never happened since.When it is running OK, it really is very good, I like it a lot. I play it on our 50" plasma TV at 1024x768 (or something like that!), it looks stunning even at that resolution.
I had to prize myself away from it when I realised the wife was asleep next to me, and the time was 2am!
Only had one small prob at one point, the sound decided not to work, so I had to exit the game and restart it - but I have Rome, and sometimes the game CTD, or freezes every now and then, so no great shakes.
So, it seems to play fine on an average PC, albeit a fairly modern PC.
One thing I can't figure out, the cars that have names over them, are they online players, or just CPU players?
The cars with names over are either online players (if your profile is online) or offline AI (if your profile is offline). Either way you can challenge them to race, and if they are human you can often get them to cruise around with you.
chris watton said:
I was so looking forward to accepting the challenge of driving this guy's Ferarri across the island for $80K!
Chris, if you don't crash and do the delivery missions perfectly you get double the money! Much better when you've finished! Civpilot is right about the names above for off and online profiles, although as my steering wheel is playing up now (its old and XP has finally thrown its toys out of the pram following fresh install) I just cruise around. Was having great fun thrashing along in a guy with Mac F1 in my Murci.
R1 GTR said:
ThePassenger said:
Thudd said:
These problems can all be solved by running TDU on an xBox360, if you can find one that works.
Maybe. I said to a guy "Go buy the PS2 version" only to discover it's broken.ting me? Damn dude... that sucks.Look on the bright side, the patch is out erm... <checks callender> now! Can I offer you a tasty deal on this bridge good sir? :/
ThePassenger said:
R1 GTR said:
ThePassenger said:
Thudd said:
These problems can all be solved by running TDU on an xBox360, if you can find one that works.
Maybe. I said to a guy "Go buy the PS2 version" only to discover it's broken.ting me? Damn dude... that sucks.Look on the bright side, the patch is out erm... <checks callender> now! Can I offer you a tasty deal on this bridge good sir? :/
And whats this about a bridge?
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